Article carrier



A. PELOSI ARTICLE CARRIER Dec. 15, 1931.

Filed March 14, 1929 tlllHHlluHu PZoi.

Patented Dec. 15, 1931 UNITED STATES ANTON IO PELOSI, OF BROCKTON, MASSACHUSETTS ARTICLE CARRIER Application filed March 14, 1929. Serial No. 347,127.

This invention relates to an article carrying and securing device designed primarily for use by students, though applicable to many other uses. n

The primary object of this invention 1s to provide a device which may be employed for securing together a number of books or a number of other articles or for holding a rolled article in a bundle and having means associated therewith whereby an assortment of small articles may be supported and carried with the device ready for use when needed.

The invention broadly contemplates the provision of a relatively long and broad body of fiexible material preferably leather having one face provided with a longitudinally extending series of loops each of which may receive an article. At one end of the leather body a transverse slit is formed therethrough and adjacent the slit on the back or outer face of the body a buckle is secured. Adja cent the opposite end of the body there 1s secured thereto a relatively long strap which after being passed about an article or a number of articles held by the device, engages the buckle for maintaining the article or articles in a neat bundle or pack.

A further object of the present invention is to provide a device of the above described character which may be economically constructed, which will be strong and durable and which will be efficient for the purpose described.

The invention will be best understood from a, consideration of the following detailed description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings forming a part of the present invention with the understanding, however, that the invention is not confined to any strict conformity withV the showing of the drawings but may be changed or modified so long as such changes or modifications l, mark no material departure from the salient features of the invention as expressed in the appended claim.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a pla-n vi ew of the inner face of the article carrier embodying this invention;

Figure 2 is a view showing the article applied;

Figure 3 is a sectional view taken on the line 3 3 of Figure 1;

Referring to the drawings in detail the numeral 1 indicates generallythe body of the present device which as shown, comprises a relatively long broad strip of ma-terial'of a fiexible nature, preferably of leather.

This body is cut square across at one end as indicated at 2 and at its opposite end has the corners cut away obliquely as indicated at 3 to forma pointed end portion and overl ing a part of this pointed portion upon one face of the body is a reinforcing sheet 4 of the same material stitched about its edges to the main body 1 as shown, and having the central part thereof open as indicated at 5.

Secured to the main body 1 of the device beneath the sheet 4 to appear through the opening 5, is a mirror 6.

Extending from the reinforcing sheet al longitudinally of the inner face of the body 1 is a strap 7 which is stitched transversely at a number of points as indicated at 8 to the main body forming a series of loops 9 beneath each of which an article may be slipped to be carried by the body. As shown, the loops may be employed for holding pencils, a ruler, eraser, or similar articles when the device is used by school children.

Adjacent its end 2 the body has formed therethrough, a slit 10 through which the adjacent end of the strap 7 extends to the back of the body 1 where it carries a buckle 11. A reinforcing body 12 is secured to the body 1 over the slit 10 in the manner shown, that edge of the reinforcing body adjacent the strap 7 ,being free of the carrying body.

At its other end the main body 1 has attached thereto, preferably under the edge of the reinforcing sheet 4, one end of a relatively long strap 13 the free end of which is designed to be engaged by the buckle 11 when the device is in use.

As previously stated, the present article carrying and holding device is designed primarily for the use of school children and as illustrated in Figure 2 itmay be employed for securing together a number of books in place of the usual book strap and when soemployed the face of the body l carrying the looped strap 7 is directed toward the books which the device holds together.

It is, of course, obvious that this device may be employed for a. number of other purposes as for example, it may be used as a traveling,` case, in which case, the loops 9 may be made of a size to conveniently take a brush, comb, soap box, etc., and the device may be secured about .a towel or similar .arti-V cle to maintain the saine in a` compact roll.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is An article carrier of the character described comprising an elongated flexible member, al pair of strap sections secured to said iexible member and extending longitudinally thereof, one of said strap sections having the free lend thereof positioned oppositely from the free end -of Ythe other strap section and on the opposite side of said flexible member, stitching,r positioned transversely of one of said strap sections and engaging said iieXible member whereby to provide ay d plurality of pockets longitudinally of iiexible member, a buckle carried by one of said strap sections, said strap sections upon engagement with each other and about a folio being adapted to restrict said pockets Whereby to securely hold an article Within said pockets.

In testimony whereof I hereunto atiix my signature.

ANTONIO PELO-si. 

